Fostering Change

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Fostering Change | Einat Nathan Mar 29, 2022

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In this week’s episode of Fostering Change Rob Scheer talks with Einat Nathan.Einat started a small, weekly magazine column in Israel based on the concept that the classic parenting method of being a “know-it-all expert” doesn’t resonate with children, and that while the parent-child relationship is not an equal relationship, it is a relationship where the value of equality should be present. Einat shared personal parenting struggles, from screen time arguments to how to suggest dieting to your kids (hint: don’t), along with how she solved these issues. The column eventually grew into a cultural phenomenon and a #1 bestselling book in Israel.

Now translated into English, MY EVERYTHING: The Parent I Want to Be, The Children I Hope to Raise provides a fresh, more millennial, relationship-based approach to parenting strategy. MY EVERYTHING is a rare mix of professional advice and intimate personal exposure that explores how to understand that your children are doing what they are doing in order to grow and develop, and how to release your expectations from them for the sake of their liberty to be who they are.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️ Often, in the name of good parenting, parents remove obstacles that are a necessary part of children’s growth and development.

🖐️ Quality time isn’t measured by time but by quality

🖐️ Gradually, food makes its way into the emotional realm—and the most painful thing about it is that it happens because that’s what we taught them.

🖐️ One of the greatest challenges that faces every parent is humility.

You can find out more about Einat by visiting:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/einat.nathan.parenting

Twitter - @EinatNathan

Instagram - https://instagram.com/einatnathan

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Fostering Change | Anthony Trucks Mar 22, 2022

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In this week’s episode of Fostering Change Rob Scheer talks with Anthony Trucks, Coach, Speaker, Author, Former NFL, CEO at Identity Shift. Anthony is an experienced president with a demonstrated history of working in the health wellness and fitness industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Athlete Development, Coaching, Sales, Football, and Event Management.

Key Story Notes:

🖐️The Six Types of Failure: Learn how to stop placing importance on fear of failing and learn instead to reframe failures as you learn when you fail forward.

🖐️The Difference Between Healthy Guilt and Unhealthy Guilt: It has the power to push you to become the version of yourself.

🖐️Identity Shift: How to make a life change to find your true identity

You can find out more about Anthony by visiting:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyTrucks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnthonyTrucks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonytrucks/

Author Website: https://anthonytrucks.com/

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Fostering Change | Brittany Burcham Mar 15, 2022

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In this week’s episode of Fostering Change Rob Scheer talks with Brittany Burcham . Brittany has been an emergency and respite foster parent for teens in Birmingham, AL, since 2019. Last year, she started a TikTok called @fostertheteens and has since gained almost a MILLION FOLLOWERS on TikTok and Instagram. It was one of her teen fosters that pushed her to create her TikTok account, fostertheteens, last April in order to talk about what it's like to foster a teenager.

Key Story Notes:

🖐️The Misconceptions of Fostering Teens,

🖐️The Need for Families Willing to Foster Teens

🖐️The Difficulties Youth have Aging Out of Care.

You can find out more about Brittany by visiting:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fostertheteens/?hl=en

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Fostering Change | Foster Nation & Kate Somerville Skincare Mar 08, 2022

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In this week’s episode of Fostering Change Rob Scheer talks with Kate Somerville and Maggie Linn. Kate Somerville, a trailblazing brand in the world of prestige skincare, has been healing skin and transforming lives for over two decades. With these core values in mind, the brand announced a long-term partnership with Foster Nation, an organization empowering foster youth aging out of the system to become the nation’s future leaders through career mentorship.

Key Story Notes:

🖐️The Kate Somerville x Foster Nation Partnership

🖐️How Maggie and Kate came together, their stories

🖐️Why Foster Care is important to both of them and how people can support

You can find out more about Kate and Maggie by visiting:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katesomervilleskincare/

Twitter: @thefosternation

Instagram: @katesomervilleskincare // @thefosternation

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Fostering Change | Maggy Krell Mar 01, 2022

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Maggy Krell is a legal trailblazer who has taken on impactful cases as a criminal prosecutor and human rights lawyer. She was a prosecutor for 15 years, serving as Supervising Deputy Attorney General in California and cross-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Her most notable accomplishments stem from her tireless efforts to combat human trafficking and protect and empower survivors, including her ground-breaking prosecution of the sex-trafficking website, Backpage.com. Krell also served as Chief Legal Counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California where she fought to protect and expand reproductive rights and access to healthcare. Krell currently runs her own practice providing legal support and impact strategy for survivors and non-profit organizations.

In TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE, veteran prosecutor Maggy Krell tells the gripping behind-the-scenes story of leading the legal charge against Backpage.com, a website that claimed to be a marketplace for all manner of sales and connections, but truly had one money-making function: to accept advertisements for commercial sex, many of which featured sex trafficking victims who were forced or coerced into being on the site, including children. In doing so she describes a new and more just way of prosecuting human trafficking in the U.S.

In the book Krell does a masterful job of explaining sex trafficking in the United States and how the legal framework around it has evolved over the last 20 years. Dispelling popular myths about who human trafficking impacts and how it occurs, Krell zeroes in on the most vulnerable targets: children from poor neighborhoods who have suffered abuse in their own homes and then been failed by the child welfare system. Too often treated as criminals instead of victims, sexually exploited teenagers would formerly languish in the criminal justice system while their traffickers flew under the radar. And many in law enforcement struggled to recognize this larger pattern and the ways in which vulnerable teenagers—who were disproportionately girls and women of color—were being exploited and then punished.

STORY NOTES:

🖐️ About Taking Down Backpackage

🖐️ What Human Trafficking is, and Who is Affected by it

🖐️ Why it’s so Difficult for Men and Women Who are Trafficked to Get Out of “The Life”

🖐️ Why it’s Difficult for Law Enforcement to Find Traffickers and Bring Them to Justice

🖐️ How Maggy’s Work in the Case Against Backpage.com Illustrates How this Can be Done, and Why it Can and Should be a Model Moving Forward

You can find out more about Maggy by visiting:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maggy.krell

Instagram: https://twitter.com/maggykrell

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Fostering Change | Kristina Lowenstein Feb 22, 2022

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Kristina Lowenstein is the co-founder and executive director of The Honeycomb Project. She was 13- years-old when she landed her first job making dip cones at an ice cream shop. After many more years, and a few more jobs, she shifted her focus to the nonprofit sector where she worked for organizations such as The Field Museum and 2016 Chicago Olympic Bid. Kristina studied Political Science as an undergrad at NYU and attended Northwestern University’s Kellogg Executive Scholars program. She is a 2017 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow.

The Honeycomb Project is one of few organizations in the county focused on family volunteering. Since 2011, more than 30,000 volunteers have participated in programs, making a difference in the lives of millions of residents in the Chicago area. And more recently, 2,000 kids and parents across the country participated in our Honeycomb at Home program, which provides educational resources and creative ideas to spark change from the kitchen table.

Volunteering as a family connects kids with complex issues through personal experience. We are opening their eyes to the realities of our society and helping them understand how to make a difference and why to take action.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️What is The Honeycomb Project and Why is it so Necessary?

🖐️What are the Benefits of Volunteering as a Family?

🖐️How Do You Appeal to Kids with Different Interests?

🖐️How Can People Participate in Honeycomb’s Volunteer Efforts Outside of Chicago?

🖐️How Does The Honeycomb Project Fund its Work?

You can find out more about Kristina by visiting:

Facebook: @HoneycombProject

Instagram: @Honeycombproject

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Fostering Change | John & Jack Barlow Feb 15, 2022

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John Barlow

John is a success story, from a Foster Care perspective. He spent a short period of time in Foster Care as a baby and was adopted by parents that provided an excellent life. He grew up in various states around the country and had incredible experiences from every location. He started his career in a sales capacity at a few different companies and then started VIDA Tequila with his wife, Lisa Barlow, in the early 2000's. Along with VIDA, they have started additional companies including Fresh Wolf - which they created alongside their two sons, Jack (17) and Henry (10). John and Lisa wanted their boys to understand what it takes to create and run a business as well as give back to their community. Jack created the give-back program associated with Fresh Wolf which involves donating a 2-in-1 shampoo/body wash with every product purchase.

Outside of work, John loves being active including playing various sports, mountain biking and especially hiking in the mountains with Lisa. He also enjoys watching Jack and Henry play basketball and helps out where he can.

Jack Barlow

Jack is a wonderful kid with a huge heart. Jack is the reason Fresh Wolf came to be - asking his parents if they could help create a men's grooming product line with him. He is currently in 11th grade focusing on going to college after graduation. He is taking college-level business classes, involved with FBLA and also DECA. His goals include either playing basketball for Duke University or going to college in Miami. He has always had an innate business savvy and a keen understanding on how businesses work. Jack is known by many to have created business plans on post-it notes and white boards at the early age of 4. He is continuously coming up with ways to promote Fresh Wolf on his many social media platforms. Jack is known throughout his school and community as someone who makes everyone feel welcome. You will likely find him introducing himself to new students and inviting them to participate in whatever activity he has going on.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️The Inspiration for Fresh Wolf

🖐️The Impact the Business has had on Foster Care in Utah

🖐️What is Coming for the Business

You can find out more about John and Jack by visiting:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freshwolfproducts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/freshwolfmen

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freshwolfproducts/

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Fostering Change | Deborah Koenigsberger Feb 08, 2022

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Hearts of Gold, a nonprofit organization with a mission and purpose of supporting and

empowering homeless single mothers in the New York area and mostly from a domestic

violence background to reclaim their lives. Homeless mothers struggle every day to overcome

the key elements that define poverty - limited access to education, social discrimination, and

lack of participation in the decision-making processes that govern their lives.

Deborah started her career as a fashion model, then worked extensively as a stylist before

opening her upscale women's French boutique, Noir et Blanc in Manhattan in 1989. She

graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts, and is a wife and the mother of two

sons.

Since its first day of operation the mission of Hearts of Gold has been to transform the lives of

marginalized single mothers—primarily women of color and immigrants. A large percentage of

the mothers are victims of domestic violence who have been neglected by family and society,

rendering them alone and frightened with shatteringly low self-esteem. With focused emotional

and physical support, education and occupational training, these mothers can and will become

economically self-sufficient and lead happy, healthy and productive lives.

So far, Hearts of Gold has positively impacted the lives of over 34,475 homeless and very

low-income single mothers and their children and counting.

Over the years Deborah has assembled a broad and a diverse, motivated group of supporters.

Friends, volunteers and business associates from the New York Metropolitan area and around

the globe have stepped up and joined forces with Deborah to make Hearts of Gold the vehicle

of change that it is today.

Story Notes:

🖐️ Deborah Koenigsberger’s Background

🖐️ About Hearts of Gold Organization

🖐️ Hearts of Gold’s Mission

🖐️ The Vehicle of Change

🖐️ What We've Accomplished

You can find out more about Deborah by visiting:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartsofgoldnyc

Instagram: @heartsofgoldnyc and @thriftyhognyc

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Fostering Change | Jamerika Haynes Feb 01, 2022

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A native of Tacoma, Washington, Jamerika Haynes-Lewis has more than ten years of experience as a journalist and advocate for children in foster care. While growing up in foster care, Jamerika was determined to have a different life than the one she experienced. She put herself through college earning a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Washington State University.

As the owner of Clever Jam Communications, Jamerika offers strategic communications guidance, motivational speaking, and facilitation. Currently she is USA Ambassador Ms. 2021 through the USA Ambassador Pageant. Her platform is ‘A Chance to Succeed: Empowering Youth in Foster Care.’

Story Key Notes:

🖐️November is National Adoption Month, let's discuss the children who need homes

🖐️What we can do as community members to help families who are vulnerable to ending up in the system,

🖐️What I plan to do/have done with my reign as USA Ambassador Ms. 2021

You can find out more about Jamerika by visiting:

Facebook: Clever Jam Communications | Facebook

Twitter: (@CleverJamComms) / Twitter

Instagram: (@jamerika_b) • Instagram photos and videos

Author Website: www.cleverjam.com

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Fostering Change | Leslie Gang Jan 25, 2022

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Leslie Gang (maiden name Reis) was born and raised in Long Island New York, where she currently resides with her husband Jason and children Alexandra and Simon. She graduated from Boston University in 2007 with a double major in Communications (specialization in Public Relations) and Jewish Studies. Leslie has worked in the admissions and marketing field of the nonprofit sector for more than 14 years and is currently the Director of Admissions and Communications at the Brandeis School in Lawrence, NY. Leslie is also the co-founder of Hindi’s Libraries, an international literary nonprofit that donates new and gently used children’s books all over the world. “Everyone has the ability to do good, we just need the willpower to make it so.” Leslie can be reached at leslie@hindislibraries.com

Story Key Notes:

🖐️ How/Why we became an org

🖐️ What we've accomplished

🖐️ What we'd love to see happen/goals (and the needs to get there)

You can find out more about Leslie and the Hindi’s Libraries by visiting:

Facebook @hindislibraries

Twitter @hindislibraries

Instagram @hindislibraries

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